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Latest critical infrastructure publications


Prioritising critical infrastructure during a global pandemic

Companies across all critical infrastructure sectors – from power plants to healthcare to manufacturing – must assume that sophisticated attackers are already inside the network.


Iranian hackers could target US electrical utilities

A hacking group with links to Iran has been attempting to compromise thousands of accounts belonging to US electric utilities and oil and gas firms amid rising fears the Iranian Republic is planning a cyber retaliation in the wake of the assassination of major general Qasem Soleimani.

On Thursday, industrial control system security firm Dragos detailed new hacking activity which the company attributed to a group of state-sponsored hackers it calls Magnallium which has been previously linked to the Iranian regime. The same group is also known as APT33, Refined Kitten or Elfin.


Innovative NEXTDC micro data centre is the way of the future

With their new P2 20MW hyperscale data centre scheduled for completion in 2020, NEXTDC couldn’t leave the Western Australian market waiting 18 months for critical cloud and connectivity services So, in parallel to the main build, NEXTDC partnered with Flexenclosure to create the P2 microsite – a small but extremely powerful modular data centre, designed… Read More


Protecting digital infrastructure against the climate threat
Jason Hood, global segment manager for infrastructure at Roxtec, explains how DC managers can take proper action towards hardening critical infrastructure Climate change represents one of the biggest threats to all infrastructure, including communications infrastructure and data centres.  Specifically, sea-level rise caused by melting ice sheets and glaciers could have a substantial impact on data... Read More